Through The City Part 2: the escape

I scrambled away from the wet wall and marched straight up to the towering metal turnstile gate! High above the tiled floor, the vertical stainless steel card slot sat gleaming under the fluorescent station lights. Squeezing target spotted! I shimmied up the cold metal support bar, stretched my long paper arms wide across the reader surface, and thrust my flat cut-out fingers right into the narrow ticket slit to measure its depth. Snug! But suddenly, the motorized intake wheel inside gave a tiny mechanical twitch and pinched my papery fingertips! Grrr! I braced my heels against the chilly steel casing, kicked with all my might, and popped my hands free just as a cool breeze from the train tracks rippled through my flat body!